M Reza HashemiM. Reza Hashemi is an assistant professor, in the Department of Ocean Engineering and Graduate School of Oceanography at the University of Rhode Island, USA. The University of Rhode Island is the birthplace of the first offshore wind farm in the US: he Block Island Offshore Wind Farm, and has several centres for teaching/ research regarding renewable energy. Hashemi has published over 35 peer-reviewed journal articles, mainly focused on ocean renewable energy and coastal engineering. He has developed and taught several undergraduate and graduate courses about renewable energy, and one of the motivations for this book was to provide a textbook for these courses. Read More Read Less